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Post-visit resources

After your educational visit to Westminster Abbey, try one or more of these resources back in the classroom or at home. From quizzes to craft, writing prompts to full-scale projects, how will you choose to consolidate learning and inspire creativity? Resources are suitable for 5- to 11-year-olds.

Knowledge recap and quizzes

Refresh your knowledge of key information about Westminster Abbey, with our fact file, word search and competitive quiz. Share what you discovered with help from an image bank and key vocabulary sheet.

Photograph of an section of the fact file timeline along with an illustration of the West Towers of Westminster Abbey

Fact file

Photograph of the nave altar in front of the quire screen within Westminster Abbey

Image bank

Photograph of the West Towers of Westminster Abbey

Quiz

Photograph of a section of the wordsearch, words featuring in the wordsearch and an illustration of a child thinking

Word search

Arts and crafts

Get creative after your visit! Make your own souvenir, design a historic object or spend time colouring in the detail of the Abbey. Plus, work together to create classroom displays fit for a king.

Photograph of crown colouring in sheet with a child's hand holding a pen and colouring in

Colouring sheets

Photograph of illustrations from different parts of the coronation surrouonded by dotted lines to cut out the template

Design your own

Photograph of completed Advent activity template with coloured in drawing of the West Towers of Westminster Abbey

Make your own

Photograph of a hand holding a stained glass window craft using scraps of paper

Class creations

Writing, drama and speaking

Practise creative and persuasive writing skills with an Abbey twist. Bring stories of this historic church to life with engaging re-enactments or thought-provoking speaking challenges.

Illustration of Ignatius Sancho holding a quill

Creative writing

Photograph of memorial statue to William Shakespeare with an open scroll containing words

Persuasive writing

Photograph of memorial to actor David Garrick, dramantically opening a pair of curtains

Drama

Photograph of modern martyr statue to Martin Luther King Jr above the Great West Doors of Westminster Abbey

Speaking

Special projects

Why not create a bigger project to remember your visit? Make your own film, design an enticing guidebook or even compose a piece of music about the Abbey. You could share these and more within a special assembly back at school.

Illustration of people surrounding the Grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey

Assembly ideas

Photograph of memorial in Westminster Abbey in which a musical score is held by a stone hand

Compose a piece of music

Photograph of historic guidebook of Westminster Abbey, containing an line drawing of the North Door of the Abbey

Create a guidebook

Illustration in a comic book style showing the coronation of William the Conqueror in Westminster Abbey

Make a film

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You are surrounded by history at the Abbey, not like a museum where it’s just displayed, but here you are standing where history has happened.

Gerlinde - Visitor Experience Manager